[elil17]

It is good to see someone finally working on one of these without the stupid legs

(I think the legs are stupid because they give your robot the chance to fall over and are not relevant for most environments).

[gacgacgac]

Do you have stairs in your house?

[elil17]

The problems with legs are sufficient that having two robots would be better than having one with legs. Here's why:

- You can increase the payload a lot

- You can increase the torso weight which means you can use cheaper, heavier components

- It won't fall down and hurt someone if it malfunctions

- It will never be in a position where it might fall down the stairs (if it were, it could kill someone)

- It will use less power/have a longer battery life

[vitally3643]

To be fair, there are wheel arrangements which can negotiate stairs. Tank treads can probably do it too.

[fuzzythinker]

A carrier bot can be parked near the stairs to transport the bot to different floors

[geetee]

I am protected

[Zarathruster]

Goons never die, they just go to HN and regroup

[gacgacgac]

I'm glad someone caught this.

[forgotusername6]

Two robots

[IshKebab]

Then they can't bring anything up or down the stairs.

Still, I expect it won't matter - by the time we have reasonably priced robots that can reliably do all housework, that's like 90% of jobs eliminated from society and probably society will collapse.

[skeledrew]

Maybe one can throw things to the other :).

[gacgacgac]

My kitchen, office, living room, gaming computer, entryway, and bedroom are all separated by sets of stairs.

So that's six robots for me?

[jannyfer]

This is how I used to solve the roomba-can’t-use-stairs problem.

I’ve now moved to a single floor. Problem solved!